Despite a punishing travel schedule that took the Blitzboks from Cape Town to Johannesburg on to Sydney and then to Auckland and finally Hamilton‚ after nearly 40 hours‚ they have a no-excuse mentality. The journey to reach the third leg of the HSBC World Sevens Series is a long one‚ but it is the next step for the team to start climbing up the standings after a mediocre start to the campaign. The 2018 Sydney tournament was the first of two on the Australasian leg‚ but this year it is the second stop‚ meaning the Blitzboks had that much further to go initially. “This is a tough schedule‚ which includes an extra four hours from Sydney to Auckland and then two hours on a bus from Auckland to Hamilton‚” coach Neil Powell said. “It will be a challenge to recover in time as we travel over two more time zones‚ but when the NZ leg was in Wellington we did it this way around and were successful. “So we aren’t making excuses. In fact‚ we’ve dubbed this tour the ‘no-excuses tour’.” To help wi...
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